Have you ever considered that perhaps you're charging too much for your software?
I agree. $20 _is_ a lot for any kind of software in this level. Ever considered following winex's policy? Sure $5/license seems a bit low, but once your software is written, all you are doing is making copies and selling per license. Plus even if 30 people (out of millions who use it) buy a legitimate copy considering its affordable, you would still be earning more then what you did with previous versions (zero registration)
To tell you the truth, no html editor I came accross is worth that much.. unless its dreamweaver.
What I ment is.. DFS interface should come as filesystem tool (xfsprogs, e2fsprogs, reiser4progs etc) rather then depending on one desktop or window manager.
Actually database storage should be implemented in the filesystem rather then kernel or window/desktop managers. That would make much more sense and theoratically, it will be faster.
So dont compile x.org with those features. Thats the goodness of oss. You get to choose what you want on your setup and you dont have to follow the default configs with minimal choices of binaries. Strip down x.org like you would do to your kernel. Dont run X itself if you dont like 'bloat'
Its fscking weak that because of statements like that, the development gets affected.
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Internet phone systems, seen as the wave of the future in telecommunications, must be set up in such a way that conversations can be monitored by police and intelligence agencies, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said in a tentative ruling on Wednesday.
By a vote of 5-0, the FCC said "Voice over Internet Protocol," or VoIP, providers should be subject to the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which ensures that law enforcers will be able to keep up with changing communications technologies.
The law does not apply to Internet-based communications but VoIP providers such as Vonage must comply because they are likely to replace much traditional phone service, the commission said.
The Justice Department, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have argued that they must be able to monitor suspicious calls no matter how they are made and have pushed the FCC to adopt rules so they will always have access.
Technology advocates have worried that the fast-growing service, which promises to slash costs by routing phone calls over the Internet, could be harmed by excessive regulation.
The ruling does not affect other pending regulatory questions surrounding VoIP service, such as how it should be taxed, FCC Chairman Michael Powell said.
"Our tentative conclusion, while correct, is expressly limited to the requirements of the CALEA statute and does not indicate a willingness on my part to find that VoIP services are telecommunications services," Powell said at a commission meeting.
Several commissioners said this attempt to avoid larger regulatory questions weakened the legal argument underpinning the ruling, though they all voted to support it.
"There are less roundabout ways to achieve this result than the collection of tentative conclusions we offer here, and there are better ways to build a system that will guarantee judicial approval," said Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat.
The ruling does not apply to "non-managed" VoIP services like Skype, which have more in common with file-trading networks like Kazaa than traditional phone networks.
Skype offers "peer to peer" software that allows users to talk directly with each other rather than going through pathways set up by the carrier.
Separately, the FCC ruled that commercial "push to talk" services offered by wireless providers like Nextel Communications Inc. would be subject to CALEA.
The ruling on "push to talk" services is final, but the FCC will accept further public comments before making its ruling on VoIP final.
The FCC has yet to determine how long VoIP carriers need to comply with wiretap laws, and whether outside companies can manage compliance for these carriers.
VoIP carriers offer subscribers a low monthly fee for nationwide calls and discount rates for international connections.
Major traditional carriers like Verizon Communications and AT&T Corp. have launched VoIP offerings to match services offered by independent start-ups like Vonage.
Research firm Gartner Inc. estimates that 17 percent of North American phone lines will be replaced with VoIP lines by 2008.
We swim in and eat fish from the river. Our water comes from the river and local groundwater. None is contaminated enough to be detectible, let alone harm somebody. And I'm right here, a fraction of a mile downstream from the site.
In no random order..
Webmin/usermin
linuxconf
netconf
cfengine
Saint
Nessus
vim:)
make menuconfig (cause my knowledge is failing me)
2 more:-/
COAS
Yast
Actually, you're probably American, since the WORST and MOST BIZARRE manglings of English seem to originate from America, and in fact from people born in America, who have been learning English all their lives. Go figure.
1) Resources. I'm running Windows XP and from what I understand, there is no way I can remove Internet Explorer from my computer. Call me a space hog, but I don't like having un-used aps on my computer. I figure better to have an inferior browser on my computer, a little extra space, and less confusion then to load both of them. Can anyone solve that problem?
IMO you should try Mozilla firefox instead of Mozilla suite. Not only is firefox the sleek and toned down version, it doesnt includes a MUA, Chatzilla and stuff like that, you probably wont use.
As far as removing IE on xp, goes.. Not sure it can be done. I guess you'll have to live with a useless software. You are on windows afterall:P (j/k)
2) I ended up using Outlook because the Mail Server I use requires SPA and a security plug that is used solely by Microsoft. Mozilla's mail program going to solve this for me?
Try thunderbird.. It includes secure password authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
And the first bar code reader was built by Woodland (who was an IBM employee at the time) and Silver in 1952 and included a 500 watt light bulb and a photomultiplier vacuum tube made by RCA for movie sound tracks.
The one I enjoy is a bit different from the dumb spandex wearing underwear fetish superhero comics, but conceptually more challenging fare. one real masterpiece of the comics medium I have seen in recent times is The Smartest Kid On Earth. It's an almost oppressively bleak look at the commonplace estrangements that make up much of modern life. There is a leavening of black humour however, and the outstanding art is a delight in itself.
The anti-monopoly laws that should lock illegal activity of huge US monopolies are not working simply because in the USA (like in all other 'civilized' countries) BIG money is always more important than human rights, local and international laws. In many cases it is more important that human life and this is the increasingly alarming tendency.
Anti-monopoly laws are just another one of those things that went terribly wrong.
KDE is as sweet as osx once you tweak it a little. My XFce screenshots have been often acknowledged by hardcore mac users. You just need to spend some time on it. Like 3-4 hours. I personally dont prefer windowmaker, maybe you need to try something else.
Try visiting KDE-look and check out some of the screenshots there. The ones that are highest rated. Or the ones featured at GnomeDesktop One of the things linux has improved a lot, is eye candy. If you dont mind all the translucant, super karamba bloat, your desktop might even rival with the sweetest looking osx.
Rapid DNS when running enterprise zone with dynamic updates or when running dynamic-dns service
for those who use dynamic IP's makes more sense then for.com and.net. Registration time is 1-2 year, 5 minutes vs 1/2 day doesnt seems to make any difference:-/
Free software (free as in freedom, not beer) can be sold for as much as the developer or redistributor wants to.
One of its example is Suse linux which charges for its distro. How can its developers lose their job when the distro works out great and they are getting resonable pay? (theoratically)
i tried suse the other week. modem and wireless card don't work with linux. not buying new ones. back to windows for me.
Should have checked if your hardware works with the distro.
Reasons why linux is ready for desktop
Gnome: Makes it as easy as working on windows. KDE: Eye candy that gnome might lack. Kpackage: Makes installing and uninstalling as easy as clicking a pretty button, for atleast deb based distros. Knoppix: Preconfigured debian. Mandrake: One of the most user friendly distros out there. Suse: This is another one of those.
Reasons why linux is not ready for desktop
* It needs to work for everything out of the box. This means no kernel recompilations. Users should be able to install any distro without having to check their hardware (although not a fault of developers. Hardware manufacturers need to support linux, but commen users dont understand that)
* People cant add and remove hardware from their desktops and laptops without any hassales.
* The major killer apps need to work seamlessly. Browsers and email are in pretty good shape. But DVD playback and high-performance games need to be worked on. Again like unsupported hardware
* Needs everything standarized instead of scattered around.
Overall, Linux is _not_ ready for desktop yet. There are still stuff that needs to be fixed and taken care of. Developers should rather concentrate more of fixing these issues before introducing new ones.
Disclaimer: I support linux all the way. I use gentoo as my main os, infact I boot to windows only for some casual gaming. Although I do acknowledge linux developers and what they do, I still think that there should be a general interest among them instead of everyone trying to reinvent the wheel.
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I pronounce it Leeh-nucks... not that you'hd care.
For remastering dvd to show a puppet, now with more wrinkles!?
Did you even read the parent post?
I want my desktop to look sweeet.
I think cartman said that. Dont quote me though.
and take Star wars with it.
What I ment is.. DFS interface should come as filesystem tool (xfsprogs, e2fsprogs, reiser4progs etc) rather then depending on one desktop or window manager.
Actually database storage should be implemented in the filesystem rather then kernel or window/desktop managers. That would make much more sense and theoratically, it will be faster.
Just my uneducated opinion.
So dont compile x.org with those features. Thats the goodness of oss. You get to choose what you want on your setup and you dont have to follow the default configs with minimal choices of binaries. Strip down x.org like you would do to your kernel. Dont run X itself if you dont like 'bloat'
Its fscking weak that because of statements like that, the development gets affected.
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Internet phone systems, seen as the wave of the future in telecommunications, must be set up in such a way that conversations can be monitored by police and intelligence agencies, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said in a tentative ruling on Wednesday.
By a vote of 5-0, the FCC said "Voice over Internet Protocol," or VoIP, providers should be subject to the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA), which ensures that law enforcers will be able to keep up with changing communications technologies.
The law does not apply to Internet-based communications but VoIP providers such as Vonage must comply because they are likely to replace much traditional phone service, the commission said.
The Justice Department, FBI and Drug Enforcement Administration have argued that they must be able to monitor suspicious calls no matter how they are made and have pushed the FCC to adopt rules so they will always have access.
Technology advocates have worried that the fast-growing service, which promises to slash costs by routing phone calls over the Internet, could be harmed by excessive regulation.
The ruling does not affect other pending regulatory questions surrounding VoIP service, such as how it should be taxed, FCC Chairman Michael Powell said.
"Our tentative conclusion, while correct, is expressly limited to the requirements of the CALEA statute and does not indicate a willingness on my part to find that VoIP services are telecommunications services," Powell said at a commission meeting.
Several commissioners said this attempt to avoid larger regulatory questions weakened the legal argument underpinning the ruling, though they all voted to support it.
"There are less roundabout ways to achieve this result than the collection of tentative conclusions we offer here, and there are better ways to build a system that will guarantee judicial approval," said Commissioner Michael Copps, a Democrat.
The ruling does not apply to "non-managed" VoIP services like Skype, which have more in common with file-trading networks like Kazaa than traditional phone networks.
Skype offers "peer to peer" software that allows users to talk directly with each other rather than going through pathways set up by the carrier.
Separately, the FCC ruled that commercial "push to talk" services offered by wireless providers like Nextel Communications Inc. would be subject to CALEA.
The ruling on "push to talk" services is final, but the FCC will accept further public comments before making its ruling on VoIP final.
The FCC has yet to determine how long VoIP carriers need to comply with wiretap laws, and whether outside companies can manage compliance for these carriers.
VoIP carriers offer subscribers a low monthly fee for nationwide calls and discount rates for international connections.
Major traditional carriers like Verizon Communications and AT&T Corp. have launched VoIP offerings to match services offered by independent start-ups like Vonage.
Research firm Gartner Inc. estimates that 17 percent of North American phone lines will be replaced with VoIP lines by 2008.
-- Reuters
If we are the message... Who is this message directed to?!
Certainly you dont write on a paper for the sake of the paper.
In no random order.. Webmin/usermin linuxconf netconf cfengine Saint Nessus vim :)
make menuconfig (cause my knowledge is failing me)
2 more :-/
COAS
Yast
As far as removing IE on xp, goes.. Not sure it can be done. I guess you'll have to live with a useless software. You are on windows afterall
Try thunderbird.. It includes secure password authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP.
Now we can enjoy all the goodness of unix in the stability and security of windows.. longhorn nonetheless.
And the first bar code reader was built by Woodland (who was an IBM employee at the time) and Silver in 1952 and included a 500 watt light bulb and a photomultiplier vacuum tube made by RCA for movie sound tracks.
GASP!
The one I enjoy is a bit different from the dumb spandex wearing underwear fetish superhero comics, but conceptually more challenging fare. one real masterpiece of the comics medium I have seen in recent times is The Smartest Kid On Earth. It's an almost oppressively bleak look at the commonplace estrangements that make up much of modern life. There is a leavening of black humour however, and the outstanding art is a delight in itself.
Mucho recommended
Lexmark is using the DMCA to stop rivals from using 3rd party toner cartridges in their printers. What the hell is up with this?!
If these case are won, it is a damn dangerous precedent.
Anti-monopoly laws are just another one of those things that went terribly wrong.
KDE is as sweet as osx once you tweak it a little. My XFce screenshots have been often acknowledged by hardcore mac users. You just need to spend some time on it. Like 3-4 hours. I personally dont prefer windowmaker, maybe you need to try something else.
Try visiting KDE-look and check out some of the screenshots there. The ones that are highest rated. Or the ones featured at GnomeDesktop One of the things linux has improved a lot, is eye candy. If you dont mind all the translucant, super karamba bloat, your desktop might even rival with the sweetest looking osx.
Rapid DNS when running enterprise zone with dynamic updates or when running dynamic-dns service for those who use dynamic IP's makes more sense then for .com and .net. Registration time is 1-2 year, 5 minutes vs 1/2 day doesnt seems to make any difference :-/
Someone please explain.
And so is Richard Stallman
Free software (free as in freedom, not beer) can be sold for as much as the developer or redistributor wants to.
One of its example is Suse linux which charges for its distro. How can its developers lose their job when the distro works out great and they are getting resonable pay? (theoratically)
Reasons why linux is ready for desktop
Gnome: Makes it as easy as working on windows.
KDE: Eye candy that gnome might lack.
Kpackage: Makes installing and uninstalling as easy as clicking a pretty button, for atleast deb based distros.
Knoppix: Preconfigured debian.
Mandrake: One of the most user friendly distros out there.
Suse: This is another one of those.
Reasons why linux is not ready for desktop
* It needs to work for everything out of the box. This means no kernel recompilations. Users should be able to install any distro without having to check their hardware (although not a fault of developers. Hardware manufacturers need to support linux, but commen users dont understand that)
* People cant add and remove hardware from their desktops and laptops without any hassales.
* The major killer apps need to work seamlessly. Browsers and email are in pretty good shape. But DVD playback and high-performance games need to be worked on. Again like unsupported hardware
* Needs everything standarized instead of scattered around.
Overall, Linux is _not_ ready for desktop yet. There are still stuff that needs to be fixed and taken care of. Developers should rather concentrate more of fixing these issues before introducing new ones.
Disclaimer: I support linux all the way. I use gentoo as my main os, infact I boot to windows only for some casual gaming. Although I do acknowledge linux developers and what they do, I still think that there should be a general interest among them instead of everyone trying to reinvent the wheel.